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Well, first you need a pint of something, surely that's warmer than the hateful weather.
Then, remove your belt and start over. Check the marks on the crank pulley, or the alignment mark on the crank sprocket (a pain, I know, use a good light). Align the cam, mark on gear to mark on back cover. (close to straight up but not quite). Align the intermediate shaft. (about 2:00 position). Also make certain both of those pulleys are on their shafts right, no pins are missing or broken. There's sort of the end of a pin sticking out of each shaft, so should be no problem for alignment if nothing's broken.
Pay attention to the two single marks on the cam belt. One lines up with the cam gear marked tooth, the other with the intermediate shaft marked tooth. The third set, the double, is for the crank timing mark, but it's weird you see: it winds up on the left (alternator) side of the sprocket, and it WOULD hit the timing mark IF you wrapped it around (or turned the engine back 1/4 turn). Silly the way it's shown if you ask me but thats it. If the gears cooperate enough to stay in place, you'll be able to get all three reference points in line and the belt on.
NOW- where's the rotor pointing? If all is well, it's pointing more or less at the alternator, that is forward and to the right front corner of the car. If not, look for that tick on the distributor body top edge, and see that it's close to that location. Closest to the thermostat housing if you will. That's where #1 should be. That's where the rotor must point. If not, pull the dist and make it line up there. Maybe someone got it wrong before. Who knows? And then check your firing order, going around the dizzy clockwise.
GOOD LUCK!
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: Roterande Fläkt Och Drivremmar!
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